Bobby Brown received a cool $1 million from Irv Gotti to film the video to his Ja Rule collaboration “Thug Lovin'” in the early aughts.
Appearing as a guest on the latest episode of Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast, the New Edition legend shared some kind words about the late mogul before launching into his story.
“Irv was a special cat,” he said. “He loved seeing people successful. He loved that. He loved making sure that you got your just do, you got paid. I think for the video ‘Thug Lovin,’ I got paid like $1 million to shoot it.”
He continued: “And the top of that building – coming off that helicopter was the scariest shit ever in my life because I’m so afraid of heights that it was just like, I don’t think I can do this. And the wind was blowing and it was just all kinds of things going on and I was just like, I have to nail this first take because I don’t wanna do it again. So I nailed the first take and I was out!”
The Hollywood Reporter confirmed Irv Gotti’s death on February 5 at the age of 54, not long after reports broke that he had suffered a second stroke, following one last year.
“He was diagnosed when he was in his 40s, but Irv doesn’t go to the doctor,” his brother Chris later explained. “That’s why he was late being diagnosed. When he finally did go get a real physical and a check-up, they’re like, ‘You’re diabetic.’”
He added: “Irv did go on his terms. He just didn’t believe it and basically he ate a bunch of Chinese food while playing poker and had a massive hemorrhagic stroke, which is bleeding in the brain.”
During his set at a Canada stop on Nelly‘s Where The Party At Tour earlier this week, Ja Rule led a touching tribute to Irv as he queued up his song “I Cry.”
With a montage of photos of Irv and his family on the big screen, Ja played audio of the late mogul sharing kind words for DMX after he’d passed.
“Gotti I love you n-gga!” Ja said before launching into the song. “X, I love you n-gga!”
Not going to the doctor, is itself a pandemic in the black community. This ridiculous myth that the doctors are out to kill you is stupid. If you don’t wanna take certain medications that’s up to you, but to let yourself die just to spite the doctors is dumb. You won’t get a trophy on your deathbed for defying the doctors. You’ll just die, before you have to.
Lookup the “Tuskegee experiment”
Rest assured every last cent of that alleged milly was spent on crack rocks. One time Bobby and Whitney were freebasing in the back of a moving limo and managed to start a fire inside the car lol. Then Whitney, high off her ass on tv defiantly claimed “crack is wack”. It’s ridiculous how these black people act.
Imagine observing how “ridiculous these black people act” and then being such a lonely weirdo with nothing going on in your life that you spend the majority of your days going on websites that only cover those same black people and reading about them.